phylactère

Le roi David, placé en haut à gauche, tient un parchemin sur lequel sont écrits en arabe des extraits de psaumes, et à droite, le prophète Isaïe tient un phylactère portant une inscription en syriaque, également des extraits de psaumes.
King David, positioned on the upper left, holds a parchment on which are written in Arabic excerpts of psalms, and on the right, the prophet Isaiah holds a speech scroll bearing an inscription in Syriac, also excerpts of psalms.
Samuel est un juif pratiquant ; il porte une phylactère sur le bras gauche.
Samuel is an observant Jew; he wears a phylactery on the left arm.
Les gens ne comprennent pas une Europe dont la politique de l'emploi se résume à un phylactère.
The people of Europe do not understand why European employment policy should degenerate into sound bites.
J'ai vu une très bonne caricature dans un journal néerlandais, elle représentait Saddam Hussein, les pieds sur son bureau, téléphonant joyeusement à Milosevic. Dans le phylactère, on lisait : toutes mes félicitations pour tes 2 000 otages désarmés.
I saw a wonderful cartoon in a Dutch newspaper in which Saddam Hussein with his feet up on his desk was cheerfully telephoning Milosevic to warmly congratulate him on his 2 000 unarmed hostages and relishing all the fun in store.
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